[Fsfe-uk] Acceptable formats

[John Seago]

Following yesterday's and Tuesday's exchange, this morning I sent this to:  
address@hidden

> Dear Sir,
> I made the mistake the other day of attaching a copy of a letter to an 
> email. I had saved the attachment in the format in which it had been 
> written, AbiWord. The Healthcare Commission office I sent it to could not 
> open it, I immediately sent a new email with the body of the letter 
> included as part of the plain text email, and posted a copy of the > 
printed letter.

> Could you please let me know which formats Government offices can open?
> I will in future try to remember to include messages in the body of any 
> email as plain text, I only ask ask AbiWord seems to offer the 
> opportunity of saving in over 20 formats, which may at some point prove 
> useful to me.  

> I do apologise if this query should have been sent to another office.

I got this reply:

> John,

> The most commonly accepted formats are .doc and.rtf. Your solution of
> plaintext obviously works well too. 


Others may wish to correct me, (please do), but it would seem that the 
formats with which government offices can cope are restricted to those 
with which Microsoft software can cope.

-- 
John Seago
GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org
AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/